MARIA STUARDA

Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848)
Opera in three acts in Italian
Libretto: Giuseppe Bardari
Premièr at Teatro San Carlo, Naples – 18 October 1834
29 December 1968
Teatro San Carlo, Napoli

Conductor: Francesco Molinari-Pradelli
Chorus master: Giacomo Maggiore
Stage director: Giorgio de Lulla
Scene and costumes: Pier Luigi Pizzi

Elisabetta Queen of England SHIRLEY VERRETT mezzo-soprano
Maria Stuarda Queen of Scotland LEYLA GENCER soprano 
Anna (Hannah Kennedy) VARA MAGRINI mezzo-soprano
Leichester (Robert Duddley) JUAN ONCINA tenor
Talbot (Earl of Shrewsburry) PLINIO CLABASSI bass
Cecil (Lord Burleigh) GIULIO FIORAVANTI baritone
A Herald MARIO FROSINI tenor

Time: 1567
Place: London and Northamptonshire

Photos © FOTO TRONCONE, Napoli


Act I
Act II 
Act III Scene I
Act III Scene II
Act III Scene III